ISBN:
9781139572828
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (292 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Boesch, Christophe Wild cultures
DDC:
304.2
Keywords:
Animal behavior
;
Chimpanzees -- Behavior
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Animal behavior
;
Chimpanzees ; Behavior
;
Electronic books
;
Schimpanse
;
Mensch
;
Kulturvergleich
Abstract:
A journey into the lives of chimpanzees, revealing the many parallels and differences between us.
Abstract:
Cover -- Wild Cultures: A Comparison Between Chimpanzee and Human Cultures -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- And the culture war started … -- Chimpanzee ethnography to uncover culture -- Cultural biases and scientific progress -- 1 Studying culture in the wild -- To study animals, all you need is love -- First steps towards chimpanzee culture -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, May 1992 -- Taï National Park, Côte d'Ivoire, October 1989 -- About animals, ignorance, and anthropocentrism -- Time to realize that Descartes got it wrong -- Synopsis -- 2 From human culture to wild culture -- Culture and ecology in humans -- Different approaches to culture -- Animal ethnography to expose animal cultures -- Imo, the cultural innovator -- Social transmission of cultural traits -- The paradox of studying "culture outside of culture" -- Animal cultures to learn about human cultures -- Synopsis -- 3 Shaping nature into home About material culture -- Taï Forest, December 1990 -- Tool makers in evolution -- Material culture shapes one's own world -- Technology boosts chimpanzee cultural ethnography -- Cumulative cultural evolution in chimpanzees -- When culture and environment mix -- Material culture in other species -- History of material culture: chimpanzee Stone Age -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 4 One for all and all for one About social culture -- Taï Forest, September 1976 -- Taï Forest, October 1992 -- Gombe National Park, Tanzania, April 1992 -- Hunting cultures in chimpanzees -- Cooperation: acting at the same time or acting together? -- Cooperation in high-risk situations -- Cultural altruism in chimpanzees -- Social niche construction in animals -- Contribution to the cultural debate -- Synopsis -- 5 I want to have sex with you About symbolic culture.
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